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If you wonder about how great physicists and chemists do not receive Nobel prizes read:
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The Politics of Excellence: Behind the Nobel Prize in Science, by Robert Marc Friedman
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He dishes the dirt. From the blurb: "In this first in-depth study of the Nobel archives, Robert Marc Friedman reveals a prize that is above neither the dictates of fashion and politics, nor the personal agendas of committee members."

Alfred Nobel's will explicitly forbids rewarding of weapons research because atoning for it (ie. Dynamite) was one of the major raison d'Etre for the Nobel Prize.
Freeman Dyson has done too much weapons research to receive a Nobel Prize, regardless of his considerable achievements in Physics.

Freeman Dyson is indeed a very remarkable physicist. He also designed the TRIGA nuclear reactor, which is a fail-safe research reactor, still in use at many universities and research institutes across the globe.

Thanks for noting the thoughts of someone who follows a straight compass needle, especially when it comes to global warming.

Of course there is a global warming problem due to high use of energy. And of course, climate modeling is a wise thing to do. But somewhere there needs to be a way to control how climate modeling creates zealotry where no amount of fear mongering is unjustified and how it causes a great rush to implement unsound regulations.

We can point to Nobel winner Secy. Steven Chu, who sees no problem with the EPA defining the performance of electric cars with a rule that violates the fundamentals in his field, such being the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Is there a mechanism for taking a Nobel prize away from one person and giving it to another?